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"Funes the Memorious" (original Spanish title Funes el memorioso) [1] is a fantasy short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986). First published in La Nación of June 1942, it appeared in the 1944 anthology Ficciones, part two (Artifices). The first English translation appeared in 1954 in Avon Modern Writing No. 2.
"The Sect of the Phoenix" (original Spanish title: "La secta del Fénix") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in Sur in 1952. It was included in the 1956 edition of Ficciones, part two (Artifices). The title has also been translated as "The Cult of the Phoenix."
Borges' fictitious writer Nils Runeberg presents to the world three versions of Judas Iscariot using his two books.. In the first version of Kristus och Judas, Runeberg says that it was Judas who was the reflection of Jesus in the human world, and as Jesus was our savior sent from heaven, Judas took up the onus of being the human who led Jesus down the path of redemption.
El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan. Buenos Aires, Sur, 1941 "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan." "The Garden of Forking Paths" Artifices (1944) "Funes el memorioso" "Funes the Memorious" La Nación. Buenos Aires, 7 May 1942 "La forma de la espada" "The Shape of the Sword" La Nación. 27 July 1942 "Tema del traidor y del héroe"
"The Circular Ruins" (Spanish: Las ruinas circulares) is a short story by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. First published in the literary journal Sur in December 1940, it was included in the 1941 collection The Garden of Forking Paths (Spanish: El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan) and the 1944 collection Ficciones.
Several of these fictions, notably "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" and "Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote" ("Pierre Menard, Author of The Quixote", published 10 months earlier in Sur, and also included in El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan), could only have been written by an experienced essayist. Both of these works apply Borges's essayistic ...
"The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" (original Spanish title: "El acercamiento a Almotásim") is a fantasy short story written in 1935 by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. In his autobiographical essay, Borges wrote about "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim", "it now seems to me to foreshadow and even to set the pattern for those tales that were somehow ...
"Man on Pink Corner" (original Spanish title: "Hombre de la Esquina Rosada") is a short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges.It is the first of several stories he wrote concerning duels between knife-fighters, which Borges recognized as one of his archetypal themes.